Thank you all for the great advice and recipes for elder flowers and berries.  I'll print them out soon and add them to my Homemakers Jo...

I planted an elder tree about six months ago and it's growing nicely.  Elders are not native to Australia and I don't know anyone wh...

The weekend came and went with housework being done, a few phone calls and only one visitor. My housework always just rolls along and curve...

I have been thinking a lot about my life recently, particularly about why I am happy to live as I do while to others it seems like hardsh...

We love eating curry in Winter and I have been making a very tasty chicken curry lately that is easy  to prepare and suitable for the slow c...

There is no doubt about it, when most of us think of living a simple life, we think of the country.  Hanno and I live on the edge of a rura...

From an allotment in London to a small apartment in Sydney, today we see where Samantha works. I can't tell you how how much I love it ...

If there is one true thing I can count on, one thing that reconnects me with what is important and tells me, with certainty, that I am whe...

Today we travel all the way to London UK to visit Dee on her allotment.  This is Dee's workspace, I'll let her explain. Dee writes...

I love orange cake and am always on the lookout for a new recipe that improves on my current one.  This is it.  I made this cake last week ...